From: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix race condition with new ring_buffer_info mutex
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:47:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190321034752.GA6828@ubu-Virtual-Machine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190320130619.07e49c97@shemminger-XPS-13-9360>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 01:06:19PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 21:49:28 -0400
> Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 03:45:33PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:05:15 -0700
> > > "Kimberly Brown" <kimbrownkd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Fix a race condition that can result in a ring buffer pointer being set
> > > > to null while a "_show" function is reading the ring buffer's data. This
> > > > problem was discussed here:
> > > > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org
> > > > %2Flkml%2F2018%2F10%2F18%2F779&data=02%7C01%7Csthemmin%40microsoft.com
> > > > %7C1d7557d667b741bdbb6008d6a8b8620f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1
> > > > %7C0%7C636881907217609564&sdata=1bUbLaxsODANM7lCBR8lxyYajNpufuwUW%2FOl
> > > > vtGu2hU%3D&reserved=0
> > > >
> > > > To fix the race condition, add a new mutex lock to the
> > > > "hv_ring_buffer_info" struct. Add a new function,
> > > > "hv_ringbuffer_pre_init()", where a channel's inbound and outbound
> > > > ring_buffer_info mutex locks are initialized.
> > > >
> > > > ... snip ...
> > >
> > > Adding more locks will solve the problem but it seems like overkill.
> > > Why not either use a reference count or an RCU style access for the
> > > ring buffer?
> >
> > I agree that a reference count or RCU could also solve this problem.
> > Using mutex locks seemed like the most straightforward solution, but
> > I'll certainly switch to a different approach if it's better!
> >
> > Are you concerned about the extra memory required for the mutex locks,
> > read performance, or something else?
>
> Locks in control path are ok, but my concern is performance of the
> data path which puts packets in/out of rings. To keep reasonable performance,
> no additional locking should be added in those paths.
>
> So if data path is using RCU, can/should the control operations also
> use it?
The data path doesn't use RCU to protect the ring buffers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-22 2:07 [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add mutex lock to channel show functions Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22 3:46 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-22 6:42 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22 18:40 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-28 19:58 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-29 19:20 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-31 15:19 ` Sasha Levin
2019-01-31 16:45 ` Michael Kelley
2019-01-31 17:47 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-01 14:13 ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-01 18:24 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-02-02 20:07 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-15 1:54 ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-15 2:27 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22 3:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix a race condition vulnerability in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:54 ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-22 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add a channel ring buffer mutex lock Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:53 ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-26 6:24 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Set ring_info field to 0 and remove memset Kimberly Brown
2019-03-29 16:01 ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-14 20:05 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix race condition with new ring_buffer_info mutex Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 22:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-17 1:49 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-20 20:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-21 3:47 ` Kimberly Brown [this message]
2019-03-21 16:04 ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-28 4:30 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-28 18:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-29 16:04 ` Michael Kelley
2019-04-10 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Sasha Levin
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